EFL My Concubine - Football League and beyond 2016-17

It sounds like we are struggling tonight. I hate it when that fucking degenerate flytipper always scores against us. Hey chin up imago :)

I love Belgium

About as much as Kaiser Wilhelm did I'm guessing :p

loooooool

It sounded like we could have been down 3-0 in the first half, but cometh the hour cometh our volkisch looking R Savage alike, Hefele !

Probably the hardest match we've had yet so settle for still no losses

If someone would have suggested 4 pts against Villa and Newcastle Utd Away I'd have demanded a steward's enquiry why we haven't got the full six :p No obv not really :p

Gollini seems to have had a really great game tonight but whatever it is these players have got seems to be catching. Such a shame, it sounded like there were some very positive vibes around the ground tonight. Ayew with a shot cleared off the line, Tshibola with a header ruled out for offside, should've won it. otoh Nakhi Wells hit the post so i suppose i should be glad enough of the point

i could get used to this

a) league one

b) moaners staying away

lark

Lol that was how I felt in league 1

I actually have gone through many periods of L1 and L2 nostalgia, as soon as our rich owner snuff's it we'll soon be back there. That much is guaranteed. My favourite promotion campaigns have been from L1/L2 in my lifetime, so I get ya.

http://www.expressandstar.com/sport/wolverhampton-wanderers-fc/2016/08/17/wolves-transfer-rumours-super-mario-balotelli-to-make-shock-molineux-move/

they really will publish anything

It's a sad state of affairs really. Balotelli has been linked to practically any club with a professional license this summer. He's even been named a target for Ajax in faux reporting like that. (they went for Chelsea's Bertrand Traore in the end)

Would love to see Balotelli at Wolves though. Surely it would break the critical barrier of twelve or so EPL ilx posters.

don't get me wrong i would welcome Mario with open lulz but it's so not gonna happen

I know. But seeing how Raiola is dragging him around second rate clubs on the continent as a "catch" this summer, tryna make a dime of him while he can, brings me down. I have love for Mario and wish him the best. It's embarrassing (and I don't count Wolves as a second rate club in the slightest!), and I would like the football world to step up and come up with a fitting club for Mario tbh.

wolves make sense. he can stay with his dad

shane duffy's driveway caked in black cat fur and gore

Nick Godwin ‏@NickGodwinsport 28m
JFH: I'm not one to complain about referees but it was like the wild wild west out there. Ridiculous. #qpr

get two penalties and still moan about the ref eh

obv the way he says it obv but still

Talisca off to Besiktas on loan, booooo

even that is opaque enough horse-trading to raise concern. like the pozzo ecology is mental but at least there is sporting logic to it beyond agent profiteering

get two penalties and still moan about the ref eh

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despite the fact we've already had more pens than all of last season they have all been p clear cut honest

basically jfh has passed his tips for increasing arse muscle mass to polter and now the loon is a rampaging box-foul machine

just as well cos the rest of our offensive strategy needs some brushing up. stubbornly compact sod is jimmy

Wagner was at the game last night and was raving about Barnsley's teamgeist rather than individual players, and said they have an impressive togetherness and fighting attitude. It got me thinking back to their Flitcroft era - which looked promising at one point.

if i'm not mistaken the form side in the country under heckingbottom (can only be the yorks messiah with this name tbf)

listened on the radio yday and it did sound like they gave us a good going over, though a title winning grinding machine would have still got the result (jfh largely bluffing in his protests - caulker fell off the wagon all game and hall naive in not expecting the nudge for the winner)

wagner may love ze gestalt but even via comms it was clear hourihane was everywhere bossing it. peach of a free kick too

http://www.skysports.com/football/barnsley-vs-qpr/358135

FA Cup today! Excited.

starting to ponder whether Joe Mason might be a bit shit

PROVE ME WRONG, JOE :D

St Andrews is its usual half-empty self, good work bluenoses

:D :D :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyiQ4I-mcQ

I love Belgium

top of the table clash against the Terriers next Saturday :D

:)

ours was just as bad as it looks. crap blunt long ball cluelessness, square pegs round holes, two clownish goals gifted to an equally poor side. smithies human after all

chery and co were doing stupid short corners all game and when one was eventually given in front of the home end they encountered such an almighty volley collective fury that the intended receiver actually ran away

Yeah well we're off the bottom of the football league so it's a happy day.

Am guessing this was Cousins' coming-out as twinkletoed charlatan

not quite, hasn't yet been trusted with sir karl henry's august mantle so is for now being played as an inside-right shuttler (while the dynamic right winger we just brought is over on the other side looking lost). not his game, certainly nary a flattering twinkle upon a digit

always gobsmacking to remember Karl Henry's still playing, still don't understand what he brings to a side that, say, a practice cone wouldn't be an improvement on

gonna see if we get another grudging 30 seconds on the worst football show ever

How can someone make a show so shit that people are getting wistful about the BBC FL show, daft question - this is the fucking channel that once broadcast a naked Keith Chegwin show.

Good on Hogg for getting his first league goal today, it will probably also be his last one but he is still a gem.

Coady is finally starting to blossom this season.

Smithies is gonna wake up sweating in the middle of the night all week.

We actually got the first game on treatment - still grudge saying owt nice about us tho.

It looks like Coady is back in favour then, a lot of people have been commenting on his performance yesterday. Even he won't recognise half the players on saturday and how our impoverished outpost has been transformed into a sturdy festung :p I'm not getting too carried away after 4 games tbh. I can remember one season when Millwall made a good start and then barely won a game after xmas and got relegated. But I do genuinely believe Wagner is pretty special and it is probably a once in a generation thing that such a great manager rocks up at Town.

Coady was pretty poor last season but he was in a poor team that was getting changed week in week out as Jackett floundered. whether it's a confidence issue or better coaching and a more clearly defined role the improvement has been obvious in the first few games. he's still only a kid so it's great to see him taking this chance and running with it - see also Jed Wallace - especially since they must realise they are suddenly more disposable than they were last season if they don't step up.

He started very strongly for us and then faded a bit towards the end of the season. But that was under a mediocre manager + without much competition for places. I reckon he would have also really flourished under Wagner and perfectly fitted into his system.

Wagner definitely seems to be the difference for you, as Zenga has been for us so far - the team that thrashed Birmingham yesterday started 10 players from Kenny Jackett's squad - Bodi was the only new guy - and they looked like a completely different side.

did i read right that coady's playing right back now? seems a good idea

Proper game of two halves yesterday against our title challengers from last year.

1-0 down in the first minute and 2 down on 16 it felt like it was going to be a very long afternoon. Came out better in the second half but reached the hour mark with nothing to show for it.

First goal went in after they went to sleep on the right. Then we took the ball straight off them after the kick off and scored again. Then we took the ball straight off them AGAIN and brushed the woodwork. Then returned the goal kick and took the lead.

A late penalty made it safe, but three goals in under 4 minutes utterly broke their defence mentally.

xp Coady played a couple of games at right back while Iorfa was suspended but his best 2 games, including yesterday, have been more or less box to box centre mid